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{{Short description|Siege during the Russo-Persian War in 1808}}
{{For|the 1804 battle|Siege of Erivan (1804)}}
{{Infobox military conflict
| conflict = Siege of Erivan
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| caption = [[Firman]] of [[Fath-Ali Shah Qajar]] to [[General Gardane]] wherein, amongst others, suggested military operations against the Russians are written, and an indication that the Shah expects Gardane to report shortly an end to hostilities and the capture of Field Marshal [[Ivan Gudovich|Gudovich]], December 1808, dated November-December 1808
| partof = the [[Russo-Persian War (
| date = October–November 1808
| place = [[Yerevan|Erivan]], [[Qajar Iran]] (present-day Yerevan, [[Armenia]])
| result = Persian victory
| combatant1 =
[[Erivan Khanate]]
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| commander2 = [[Ivan Gudovich]]
| strength1 = Unknown
| strength2 = Unknown
| casualties1 = Unknown
| casualties2 = 3,000 casualties{{sfn|Behrooz|2013|page=58}}<br />{{circa|1,000}} killed{{sfn|Mikaberidze|2020|page=438}} ▲| campaignbox = {{Campaignbox Russo-Persian War (1804-1813)}}
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The '''siege of Erivan''' took place
The Russian campaign, launched late in the season and poorly conceived and executed, failed after a six-week siege of the Iranian [[Erivan Fortress|fortress of Erivan]].{{sfn|Mikaberidze|2020|page=438}} The Russians had suffered 3,000 casualties with almost 1,000 deaths.{{sfn|Behrooz|2013|page=58}}{{sfn|Mikaberidze|2020|page=438}}
Russian field marshal [[Ivan Gudovich]] tried to excuse his defeat by claiming that French military officers had helped the Iranians, but Gudovich's superiors, as modern historian [[Alexander Mikaberidze]] explains, "knew better".{{sfn|Mikaberidze|2020|page=438}} Tsar [[Alexander I of Russia|Alexander I]] was severely dissatisfied; when he heard about Gudovich's failure, he named his expedition as "stupid", and without any sort of compassion, sent him into retirement.{{sfn|Atkin|1980|page=77}}
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* {{cite book|last1=Atkin|first1=Muriel|title=Russia and Iran, 1780-1828|date=1980|publisher=University of Minnesota Press|isbn=978-0816609246}}
* {{cite book|last=Behrooz|first=Maziar|author-link=Maziar Behrooz|chapter=From confidence to apprehension: early Iranian interaction with Russia|title=Iranian-Russian Encounters: Empires and Revolutions Since 1800|publisher=Routledge|year=2013|isbn=978-0415624336| editor-given1 = Stephanie | editor-surname1 = Cronin }}
* {{cite encyclopedia | title = EREVAN | last1 = Kettenhofen | first1 = Erich | last2 = Bournoutian | first2 = George A. | author-link2 = George
* {{cite book |last1=Mikaberidze |first1=Alexander |author1-link=Alexander Mikaberidze |title=The Napoleonic Wars: A Global History |date=2020 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0199951062}}
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